Thursday, May 7, 2015

Good Guy with a Gun Defends Free Speech

[1]Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
When two terrorists in body armor and carrying assault rifles came
for a roomful of cartoonists and fans of freedom of speech in Texas, the
media took the side of the terrorists.
CAIR, a Muslim Brotherhood front group with ties to terrorists, spun
the attack by claiming that the contest had been intended to “bait” the
terrorists. The media quickly picked up the “bait” meme.
The New York Times, the Atlantic Journal Constitution, the Dallas Morning News, CNN
and even FOX News all accused the cartoonists of “baiting” the poor
Muslim terrorists into attacking them. The actual attempt at mass
slaughter was dismissed as the terrorists “taking the bait” from the
cartoonists who had been fiendishly plotting to be mass slaughtered by
them for the publicity.
The Washington Post not only stated that the contest was
“bait”, but its headline huffed, “Event organizer offers no apology
after thwarted attack in Texas.” And why won’t the 9/11 dead apologize?
Journalists often tell us that a free press is the best defense for a
free society. Every major newspaper and news network once again proved
them wrong. The best defense for freedom of speech came not from the
journalists or the civil rights groups, from the speechmakers or the
activists.
It came from an off-duty traffic cop working security outside the
event targeted by Muslim terrorists. His partner, an older guard, didn’t
even have a gun, and took a bullet to the leg.
He could have pulled back and let the terrorists have a clear path.
No doubt he had a family and plenty of reasons to live. Like so much of
the media, he could have disguised this cowardice by blaming the
cartoonists for bringing the attack on themselves. Instead he held the
line.
The traffic cop with a pistol took on two terrorists in body armor,
armed with assault rifles and extra ammo. And when it was over, two
Muslim terrorists were dead and freedom of speech was alive.
“He had two people shooting at him, plus he’s trying to take out two targets. And if he had to make headshots,” Mark Sligar, a firearms instructor, said[2], “That’s awesome shooting. And look at the people’s lives he saved, just because he was able to take care of that. FULL ARTICLE HERE